Quotes of Nerve - somelinesforyou

“ If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. - Confucius Analects. ”

- Confucius Analects

“ If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; "Hold on!". ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. ”

- E. H. Chapin

“ Don't put new wine into old bottles. ”

- Unknown

“ Wit is well-bred insolence. ”

- Aristotle

“ Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money. ”

- Josh Billings

“ He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ The temerity to believe in nothing. ”

- Ivan Turgenev

“ Boldness, more boldness, and perpetual boldness! ”

- Georges Jacques Danton

“ The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity, for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe. ”

- Lord Percival

“ A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ”

- Helen Rowland

“ Strain every nerve to gain your point. ”

- Cicero

“ You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. ”

- J. K. Rowling

“ A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ”

- Helen Rowland

“ Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream. ”

- Les Brown

“ In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ Is it a fact — or have I dreamt it — that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. ”

- Martin Tupper

“ Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else. ”

- George David Stewart

“ Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn, dropped face — as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding and thought. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ Some animals have a lot of nerve - they get caught in my teeth! ”

- Craig Bruce

“ Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. ”

- Paul Brunton

“ I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ”

- Quentin Crisp
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